It turned out that after Yun Zhongge returned to the Guide Road Court, he was severely punished by the Yun Family ancestral hall. After all, the trouble he had caused this time was enormous; if things went wrong, it could affect the clan's most important affair—the patriarch's elevation to royal nobility.
Yun Zhongge still cared about saving face. He claimed that his severe injuries had been inflicted by an ambush from a Yang Venerate mighty figure of the Chaotic Star Sea.
After all, Xu Yi's cultivation level was no secret to outsiders. If word got out that he, the dignified Heir of the Yun Family, had been wounded by a junior at the Yin Venerate level, he would become the laughingstock of the world.
Though he covered up the fact that Xu Yi had badly injured him, Yun Zhongge hadn't forgotten to smear Xu Yi. He especially didn't conceal the affair between Princess Yinqiu and Xu Yi.
Besides that, he also pinned all the blame for the grave mistake in the campaign to annihilate the Chaotic Star Sea on Xu Yi.
He claimed that Xu Yi, that shameless scoundrel, had learned the inside story from Princess Yinqiu and then tipped off the Chaotic Star Sea, causing the campaign to annihilate it to end in failure just as victory had seemed certain.
As for how Xu Yi had learned of the Yun Family's plot, Yun Zhongge had no explanation. He only said there must be a traitor within the clan colluding with Xu Yi.
When the news got out, Yun Mingmie was so shocked he nearly lost his wits. Who else could that traitor be but him?
Worse still, Xu Yi also possessed damning evidence that Yun Mingmie had leaked the secret.
If Xu Yi were captured or killed, and the